School Lunches
A depressing blog about school lunches.
See also: Michael Polan discusses the importance of reforming our school lunches in the Q&A section of this lecture we posted earlier.
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Archived entries for politics
Scavenging
In mid June, the Sun-Times followed up on a story about how “living in a food desert — primarily the city’s African-American neighborhoods with no full-service grocery stores — can shorten your life.” The Chi-Town Daily News followed up with its own story that focuses more on Chicago community supported agriculture.
Farms like City Farms seem to be everyone’s answer to the shortage of fresh food on the South Side. I’ve even heard of people talking about stringing a series of farms all throughout Chicago’s vacant land that could grow enough food to support the whole city. Something I think was probably a pipe dream from the Chicago Center for Urban Agriculture.
I want to know the limits what you can cook in a food desert. Sure it’s hard to find good food in a lot of neighborhoods, but what’s the reality? How close can you get to cooking a good meal without having to walk more than 3 miles to get supplies?
(GOOD) First Garden
My dear friends and amazing masters of the infographic, Elsa and Tyler Always With Honor, have just made this beautiful diagram of the Obama’s White House Garden for GOOD Magazine. It’ll be nice to see a diagram of their forthcoming Portland garden…good luck with the move!
